$695 (Or $395 Upgrade)

Maptitude
New Zealand Mapping Software

New Zealand GIS Mapping Software for Health Care

Maptitude is a robust and easy-to-use professional health care
mapping tool. Maptitude provides all the features that your
organisation requires in order to take advantage of the geographic
elements underpinning successful health care networks and medical
services provision.

Maptitude costs only US$695 and is packaged as a
one-stop-solution, shipping with all the tools and data required to
allow hospital groups, managed care organisations, employer groups,
and third party administrators (TPAs) to better operate in the
competitive environment for delivering health care.

Research

The dynamics of health and health care provision vary
substantially across regions, and Maptitude allows you to map these
differences in population density, age distribution, disease
prevalence, race, ethnicity, poverty and the ability to access care.
Maptitude includes the geocoding and geographic information system
(GIS) tools that are critical in linking patient and population
locations to local demographics to explore these relationships.

Wide use of the Maptitude GIS in health care supports research in
the fields of public health, disease mapping, and epidemiology. Maps help to visualize health care information and
enhance the understanding of the health care landscape. Maptitude
mapping software enables users to find data about hospitals, health
workers, at risk populations, and more:

Map specific health variables

Understand the overall health and morbidity of a population

Look for clustering or locally elevated risks

Analyse health care coverage to identify gaps or
inefficiencies

Examine patterns of health care utilization and/or access to
care

Match a network of health care specialists and providers to
the needs of the population

Mapping Doctor, Patient, and Provider Locations

Maptitude makes it easy to use maps to analyse and understand the
locations of doctors and patients, and can help explore the best
location for a new clinic or office. Maptitude is a powerful
combination of mapping software and geographic data that provides
everything that you need to make informed decisions. Maptitude can
help answer questions such as "Where Are My Patients?", while the
Maptitude for the Web application can provide a browser-based portal to allow the
public to find their doctor, find the closest doctor, and to find
the right doctor for their needs.

In addition to the latest demographics, Maptitude includes
substantial social, housing, and income data, along with easy-to-use
analysis tools that will allow you to better understand the
relationships between the demand and supply of medical services. For example, the
Maptitude New Zealand Country Package (available FREE with a
Maptitude purchase or upgrade) includes comprehensive hospital locations
and demographic data describing population, age distribution,
ethnicity, births, education, income, and employment. These data provide
a complete framework for exploring care provider locations.

As costs of delivering health care continue to rise, providers and
administrators must do all they can to maximize efficiency and
minimize waste. With Maptitude's location-based data and tools,
health care planners can
select optimal sites to best serve patient populations, achieve
equitable service provision, and maximize access to health care.

Managed Care Network Territories

Maptitude is used in the assessment of unmet health needs which
provide a basis for addressing the requirements of a hospital's
implementation strategies (community benefit plan), ensuring it is
aligned with community needs (see an
example case study here).

Many health care organisations and pharmaceutical companies use
Maptitude for target
marketing, management, and
territory planning. For example, using the Maptitude GIS,
medical supplies and equipment can be visually located and
inventoried. Linking the physical location and condition of
equipment or supplies in a large facility or distributed medical
campus is a powerful management tool.

Maptitude mapping software gives you a suite of tools for
defining care network service areas and for address/postal geocoding
and validation. Unlike many other mapping and GIS software that
require users to purchase data separately, Maptitude includes
extensive geographic and demographic data so that you can get
started fine-tuning health care networks as soon as you install the
software.

Maptitude starts at
only US$695 and is packaged as a one-stop-solution. Maptitude
remains the most competitively priced professional health care
mapping software available and is unique in the marketplace for the
provision of comprehensive data and functionality in a single
product for a single low price.

“I teach GIS and public health classes at the University of
Washington, I have also taught short courses using other GIS
software. I have settled on Maptitude for four reasons....READ MORE

1. Analysis. Maptitude allows for the
generation of the adjacency matrix that is key to doing any spatial
statistical analysis. Maptitude provides for querying the neighbors of
an area. You can then produce statistics on the neighbors and the
distance between areas.

2. Functionality. Maptitude has
extensive functionality including powerful spatial query, database
capabilities, 3D mapping, and route selection. Maptitude supports
many different GIS formats which are simply not available in other
GIS software packages without spending a lot of extra money. You can
also utilize external data from the Internet, convert to any
projection/coordinate system, and make superb maps.

3. Ease-of-use. Maptitude has a
significantly flatter learning curve than other GIS software
packages I have worked with. Investigators can come back to
Maptitude two weeks later and remember what they need to know to
pursue a solution to their problem. GIS is not simple but Caliper
seems to be trying to make it as available to ordinary human beings
as possible. Maptitude satisfies the casual user, such as a public
health practitioner or a spatial statistician, as well as the fully
qualified GIS technician.

Investigators who are juggling database
programs, statistical packages, the operating system, not to mention
the scientific issues of a project, need as little hassle from their
GIS as possible. I think Maptitude gets pretty close to this ideal.

4. Cost. You get a fully functional GIS
and extensive data for 1/3 the price of other GIS products or your
statistical package. Most graphics packages cost more than
Maptitude."